A Piece of Mind for a Piece of Dream

(This is an article that I submitted for myself, just in case I start to lose my will to do stuffs)

Dreams

For most people they are the things you see when you sleep, things that goes within both your rational and irrational thoughts, things that may  or may not involve real people around you, although it has been said that every face you see in your dreams are the ones you saw in real life, whether you remember them or not.

Just remember that the next time you see that nice ass in your wet dreams

But to others, they are the things of your wishes; things that you would like to do, feel, have, see, and accomplish in the future. The things you would feel outmost satisfaction when you realize them, the things that drive you to do what you’re doing right now. Personally, I’d call them 'visions', or 'goals', or 'that thing you’d feel nudging your butt-crack when you’re slacking off'.

Everyone have the former definition of 'dreams', unless they’re not getting an enough deep sleep (or maybe too deep), or they simply don't dream in their sleep. But not everyone have the latter definition. Sure, they may have things that they want to do, however they are usually short term impulses. They are not 'dreams', they are called 'desires'.

With 'dreams' comes 'passions', there is no motivation that goes without a reason. In every goal you set, there must be a strong answer to the question: "Why?"

"Because"

And of course, many people fail to achieve their dreams in the end, which happens a lot of times. The reasons also varies with each person; The dream may not be strong enough to motivate them, the current situation made them abandon that dream, they just can’t get enough resource required to make that dream come true, they couldn’t clone a velociraptor for that specific dream, and so on.

But most of the time, people fail to achieve their dreams simply because they are distracted and/or not prepared to get them. You can’t save up for your future children’s school fee when you’ve been exhausting your money resource for new cars or classy vacations, you can’t start a business so suddenly when all you’ve been doing is blindly working in the office just to satisfy your job demands and nothing else. Hell, you can’t be a writer when you’re too lazy to even start writing one goddamn sentence.

Laugh all you want, but at least he started something

What if when you’ve been trying really hard but fail in the end? Well, there’s nothing wrong with that. The objective of a dream is not the only thing that is important; the path you take, the process you go through, the things that you learn, they are all invaluable things that you will also get during that pursuit of happiness.

Should that happens, just try and get some wisdom out of the final result; maybe you missed something during the process, maybe it’s not something possible for you to achieve, maybe you realized that having a velociraptor was actually a bad idea after all. Or in the worst case, maybe that dream you have would in fact make people around you suffer, which I would recommend you to stop it altogether.

We told you stop, you piece of shit

But if you still believe in that dream and view the failure as a minor setback, then by all means continue going for it. Maybe you need to change the methods, or get more resources, or gain more knowledge about the issue, just keep trying and don’t be afraid to fail again. Because a dream will only stay as the literal first definition of it without that one vital thing:

Action